There are some statistics which claim that about eight million single women go to an online dating site every month. There are guys who lament that they leave a profile up for six months and get responses from two or three women. Would it strike you that somewhere between the eight million women and the two emails, something had gone slightly awry in your master plan?

Tips for Single Men Online

There are two major ways to get responses from a lot of women if you put up a profile online: be really hot or write something funny, entertaining, or smart (or all three). If you can opt for the first option, you're still going to have to come through with interesting things to say pretty soon. If you can go with the second, you will definitely get more than two responses in six months.

This may sound counter-intuitive, but don't try to be too romantic when you start making contact with women online. You love long walks on the beach, cuddling in bed on Sunday mornings, candlelit dinners... we know. No matter how much you actually love them, don't mention them. You don't have to be the King of Romance. You want to be as honest as possible without saying that you plan to watch baseball every night during baseball season, football every Sunday and Monday during football season, and basketball, hockey, and golf at sports bars with your friends the rest of the year.

We're going to find out that your friends still come over to play Super Mario Cart and that you'd never admit it to them but you did kinda like Pretty Woman. You don't have to care who Carrie ended up with on Sex and the City; you can even make fun of the show, as long as your humor is actually funny and not actually mean. There is a woman out there who will appreciate all of your quirks (or at least most of them), and she doesn't need to be cajoled, misled, or manipulated into paying attention to you. If you're honest about your real interests and how you really spend your time (instead of presenting some idealized picture of what you think a woman would want you to do), you might even find a woman who likes sports, video games, and action movies too... and who will hold your hand if you get a tear in your eye when you catch Old Yeller on cable.